Halcyon-6

This is absolutely the most scary film ever made. I get scared even thinking about it, let alone watching it! I love being scared, but this film is almost too much, even for me. It is also a visually beautiful film, and the largely unknown cast are splendid. Malevolence and evil permeate this whole film.

Highly recommended for all fans of scary movies. The book is creepy, too. Read it! "The Mist in the Mirror" also by Susan Hill is a good supernatural story, but has not been filmed.

This is a gloriously amoral and funny film about girls on the make. There is one line in it that somehow crept past the censors (unless they didn't get it, of course). The costumes are grand, and dear Ruby Keeler is her usual squeaky virginal self - which is more than can be said for any of the other young ladies. This is a musical which is of great delight to devotees of the period and of the genre.

This is a sweet and charming film and it deserves to be much more widely known. I saw it in the cinema with a large audience of little girls and their mums, and you could have heard a pin drop so enthralled were they - and so was I. Was it a hoax, or was it not, and does it really matter? This film has much to say about the nature of loss, and coming to terms with loss. I loved it. However, when I purchased the video I was disappointed that a great chunk had been cut off the end of it, and it came to an end abruptly and unsatisfactorily. The final scenes with Mel Gibson appearing momentarily did not appear at all. Why not? Does anybody know? This cut spoilt the film for me when I viewed it at home.